President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has communicated most extreme fulfillment with the Free Senior High School strategy, presented by his organization in September 2017, that is right now ensuring at least senior secondary school instruction for Ghana's kids in general.
As indicated by President Akufo-Addo, "five (5) a long time on after the execution of the Free Senior High School program, which has ensured at least Senior High School instruction for 1.6 million Ghanaian youngsters, I need to state, with no evasion, that I am extremely glad for the approach and of its outcomes hitherto."
Talking at the 70 th commemoration festivity of the Tamale Senior High School (TAMASCO) in Tamale, on Saturday, 11 th December 2021, the President focused on that the encounters of created countries have shown that the most effective method for setting out a general public of open doors, and, consequently, ensure the eventual fate of a country, is by putting resources into instruction and abilities preparing of the young.
Without an informed people, he expressed that, Ghana can't change from the situation with a creating to a created country, adding that "it is individuals of Ghana, Ghanaians like you and I, and particularly the young people of today, who will fabricate Ghana."
The consequences of the 2020 and 2021 WASSCE results, the President expressed, give additional proof of why the Free SHS strategy has been a triumph up to this point.
"There were some who portrayed Free SHS as "a waste"; some said it would "annihilate our Ivy League Schools", and some showed that the approach planned to think twice about nature of senior secondary school training. None of these have occurred, and I am certain they have eggs on their faces now, or ought to have, President Akufo-Addo expressed.
He proceeded, "The 2021 WASSCE consequences of the second cluster of the "Akufo-Addo graduates" shows 54.08% of understudies recording A1-C6 in English, instead of 51.6% in 2016; 65.70% recording A1-C6 in Integrated Science in 2021, rather than 48.35% in 2016; 54.11% recording A1-C6 in Mathematics, when contrasted with 33.12% in 2016; and 66.03% recording A1-C6 in Social Studies, when contrasted with 54.55% in 2016. In case we neglect, the 2021 group of understudies were the pioneers of the twofold track framework, which inspired a ton of denunciation and unwarranted analysis on its presentation."
One more sign of the worth of the Free SHS strategy, he expressed, is the emotional expansion in the level of understudies from TAMASCO, who have able to go to University.
"In 2015, it was 29.2%; in 2016, it was 31.4%; in 2017, it was 34.7%; in 2018, it was 31.3%; in 2019, it was 46.3%; and in 2021, it was 45.8%. Definitely, Chairperson, there can presently don't be any discussion about the legitimacy of the Free SHS strategy and its significant measures. It is working," he said.
The President, consequently, spoke to all Ghanaians to "do without sectarian, parochial contemplations, which present little advantage, and all concur that Free SHS must be a piece of our public instructive design, for, in any event, an age, if not until the end of time. Our country will unmistakably be engaged and improved".
Obligation to Education
Supporting Government's obligation to guaranteeing the arrangement of value, important instruction, President Akufo-Addo let the get-together know that Government has presented the educator licensure system pointed toward professionalizing educating, and aligning it with global accepted procedures. So far, the National Teaching Council has given somebody hundred and 29 thousand (129,000) licenses to educators.
Government, he added, has started the development of twenty (20) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) focuses the nation over, with every one of the twenty (20) at different phases of culmination.
Moreover, out of the 1,000, one hundred and nineteen (1,119) projects, being developed under the Free Senior High School Infrastructure Intervention, 600 and 57 (657) have been finished, with nearly 2,000, 700 and eighteen (2,718) vehicles secured and dispersed by the Ghana Education Service to different foundations the nation over.
With the culmination of nine (9) Model Senior High Schools the nation over being unavoidable, President Akufo-Addo let the social event know that "in 2022, Government will grow the Free SHS Program to cover all first-year understudies in open TVET Institutes."
He guaranteed further that Government will proceed with the program of carrying out the different changes and tasks in the TVET area, including the restoration and redesigning of specialized colleges, overhauling and modernisation of the 34 (34) NVTI focuses, retooling of TVET Institutes, and the foundation of ten (10) best in class TVET establishments.